KYIV, July 21 – Due to the intensification of inbound tourism, the occupancy rate of hotels in Kyiv in June 2021 increased to 66%, which is 23% higher than in May, Head of the Hotel Matrix project Yelyzaveta Rudeleva has told Interfax-Ukraine.

KYIV, July 21 – Supply of farmland plots for sale on market may double in September compared with July, Oleksandr Korobko, a business development partner of the consulting company Uvekon, said on Wednesday.

KYIV, July 21 – More and more Chinese large companies are ready to work in the Ukrainian market, which shows an increasingly attractive image of Ukraine for attracting foreign investments, said Ambassador of China to Ukraine Fan Xianrong.

KYIV, July 21 – Ukrainian businesses listed 47% more job offers in the first two weeks of June, signaling a recovery of the job market after coronavirus lockdown, a study by HR portal grc.ua showed.

KYIV, July 21 – Ukraine, after talks with Germany, will hold a feasibility study to see if it can use natural gas pipelines for moving and storing hydrogen as potential energy projects in Europe, Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said.

KYIV, July 21 – ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih, a major Ukrainian steel producer, plans to spend $700 million in the next three to four years on large investment projects, CEO of the company Mauro Longobardo said.

KYIV, July 20 – Kernel, one of the largest Ukrainian agrarian groups, in the 2019-2020 marketing year, increased grain exports 30% compared to the previous FY, to 7.9 million tons, providing more than 13% of the country's total grain exports.

KYIV, July 20 – Ukraine should extend the incentive rates of royalty in the oil and gas industry to attract investment, Otto Waterlander, the Chief Operating Officer and the Chief Transformation Officer at Naftogaz Group, has stated.

KYIV, July 20 – Ukraine will seek Germany's assistance in implementing pilot projects to transform coal regions, acting Energy Minister Olha Buslavets said.

KYIV, July 20 – The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) may cut the refinancing rate on July 23 by one percentage point, to 5% per annum, given the slight acceleration of inflation in June to 2.4% from 1.7% in May, according to poll of bankers released by Interfax-Ukraine.